Heathen City Vol. 2: Paved With Bad Intentions

Heathen City Vol. 2: Paved With Bad Intentions

“Paved With Bad Intentions”
The second volume of the award-winning graphic novel series Heathen City, titled “Paved With Bad Intentions”, has been a year in the making – and it shows. Four stories, half a baker’s dozen of the community’s most talented artists…
You ain’t seen nothin’ yet.
Where Vol. 1 (“Always on the Run”) kicked off a [...]

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Heathen City Vol. 1: Always on the Run

Heathen City Vol. 1: Always on the Run

“Always On The Run”
Heathen City burst onto the scene in 2008 with its first volume, “Always on the Run”. Illustrated by Ayato, colored by Distasty, Krahnos, Charha and Fel (and of course written by the creator Alex Vance), the book immediately sold out during its debut at Anthrocon and Eurofurence, and went on to win the Ursa Major Award for Best [...]

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Vahnfox    •    "The rat guy totally thinks he's The Professional."

Vahnfox • "The rat guy totally thinks he's The Professional."

A. Ortiz, pseudonym “VahnFox” or “Vahn Alkaid”, is a Mexican-born, US-based independent game developer and artist currently living in Georgia with his fiancé, Blair Mason. He enjoys art of all forms and is usually busy working on some or another project. He works primarily in digital media and in the digital world, always looking excitedly [...]

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Charha    •    “More Sparta, easy on the bleem?”

Charha • “More Sparta, easy on the bleem?”

Tucked away in the mysterious depths of Finland, Charha has something of the witch about her.
While collaborating with Fel on HC Vol. 3, expected to be complete in 2010, she drove the development of HC’s rather unusual artistic nomenclature. In dividing the duties and tasks involved in the coloring process on this particular piece, she [...]

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Fel    •    “Trust me, this’ll pay off in the end.”

Fel • “Trust me, this’ll pay off in the end.”

Fel is well-known as an artist in his own right, and had previously colored some pages in HC Vol. 1. For the second book he collaborated with Krahnos, the artist drawing the romantic comedy story “La Lune Trop Pâle”, contributing not only his coloring skills, but also his expedient and effective document management techniques.
Rigorously disciplined [...]

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Blue_Panther    •    "Deadline? No problem. I mean it, Alex why do you keep asking me?"

Blue_Panther • "Deadline? No problem. I mean it, Alex why do you keep asking me?"

Blue_Panther, who illustrated the story “From a Darker Place” in HC Vol. 2, is a thoroughly European artist who brings a stark, almost clinical aesthetic to his work. Inspired by artists like Hergé, he values clean colors and almost iconic compositions. In real life, Bee_Pee is a trained typographical designer beyond his twenties who does [...]

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ZooshWolf    •    "It was easier just to draw it all than describe it to you."

ZooshWolf • "It was easier just to draw it all than describe it to you."

ZooshWolf, who illustrated the story “House of the Rising” for HC Vol. 2,  is a traditional-media kinda guy. Pen and pencil, ink on paper. He’s an artist with the balls to roll up his sleeves and invest weeks in an image on a sheet of Bristol board which might well be ruined at the last [...]

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Krahnos    •    "Ow, my drawing paw."

Krahnos • "Ow, my drawing paw."

Krahnos is certainly no newcomer to the anthropomorphic comics field.  He’s produced two issues of his own fantasy comic, The Wanderer, and illustrated two issues of Profiles for writer Graveyard Greg (both available from FurPlanet!) and of course he contributed his coloring skills to some pages from HC Vol. 1. Well-known in the community for his [...]

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"From A Darker Place" • HC Vol. 2 • Blue_Panther

Illustrated and colored by Blue_Panther
No-one is born a monster, and a mother can’t help but love her child. But anyone who grows to be such a cruel villain as Tony Caulfield must have had a moment where  they lost their innocence… or had it stolen from them.
This story take a very controversial look at the [...]

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Tony Caulfield

“I simply won’t brook such language about my mother, is the thing. No, I know it hurts, believe me, I do. I’ll tell you what, just to show you that you’re among gentlemen, I’ll have Allard here put your tongue on ice and you can take it with you after you’re finished telling me what [...]

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Pre-order NOW.

Ladies and Gents,
Heathen City is available for pre-order now. 46 pages of lush, adults-only badassery; a sophisticated, complex plot propelled by deep, morally ambiguous characters, spectacularly illustrated by Ayato, Distasty, Kahnos, Charha and Fel, with gorgeous cover art by Kamui…
Pre-orders enjoy a $5 discount until June 26: act quick, and instead of $24.95 it’ll only [...]

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June 26th, you glorious sons of bitches

Ladies and gentleman, but in all likelihood primarily gentlemen. It’s been a long road — longer than most of you know, most likely, but the end is in sight: Volume One of Heathen City will go on sale on June 26, and will be championed at Anthrocon by our friends at FurPlanet. 
These last months have [...]

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Rubber up!

As some of you may know, I, Alex Vance The Magnificent, will be attending Further Confusion this weekend. In partnership with FurPlanet we’ll be selling some merchandise specifically with the purpose of raising funds for the printing run of HC #1 when it comes out in the summer.
Item #1: novelty condoms bearing some boys from [...]

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